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Windows 7 HTPC Specs

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Since google has cached my old blog: here’s the specs on my HTPC I knocked up a few months back.

Case: Silverstone LC20B ATX HTCP Case $129
Motherboard: ASUS M4A88T-M AMD Mainboard with 4x DDR3 / 6x Sata Raid / Gigabit Lan / Onboard VGA/DVI/HDMI / AM3 $89
CPU AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz 2MB Cache Socket AM3 $106
RAM Corsair DDR3 4GB PC10600/1333 Value Select $55
TV Card FusionHDTV Dual Expess Digital PCI-e Tuner $145
PSU CoolerMaster Extreme Power Plus 500w $63

HDD

And the grand total is $587

36 hours later…

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Restored!! Finally the 2TB hard drive is mostly restored (i think). Great software, but I think it could do with some refining..

For example, it spent about 16hrs doing a scan, and ended up telling me that I can’t restore it because the space is currently occupied. Seriously? I mean, can’t you just overwrite it? So basically I ended up wasting more time after I had manually removed the partitions made by IPFire.

disable external icmp (ping) on IPFire

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Hit a little bit of a roadblock on this, on both IPCop and SmoothWall theres an option to turn off ICMP on RED (internet). No such luck on IPFire for some reason.

Anyways, long story short:

1) Login to the router

2)  cd /etc/sysconfig

3) find the firewall.local file and open it in your preferred editor

4) Add the following in the start section (after the ## but before the ;;)

iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p icmp -i red0 –icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p icmp -i red0 –icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p icmp -i red0 –icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p icmp -i red0 –icmp-type 8 -m limit –limit 1/second -j DROP
iptables -A CUSTOMINPUT -p icmp -i red0 -j DROP

5) Save it, reboot.

6) No more pinging on the red interface 🙂

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